A family member requested I write about the time I “hypnotized” 52 chickens for a $25 bet with five of my friends. Even though these were close friends, they did not know that I had a master’s degree in the social life of chickens.

Call it a two-pronged, just-after-daylight fire attack. Lancaster Fire Department Chief Chuck Small was working at a frenzied pace with a group in the multi-purpose room at the University of South Carolina Lancaster’s Bradley Arts and Sciences Building early Wednesday, Feb. 25.

HEATH SPRINGS – During citizen’s comments at the Heath Springs Town Council meeting Tuesday, Feb. 24, a Cauthen Street resident told council members she has trashed limbs near the front of her house that have been there “since July last year.”